Heh. Hah. This game is awesome.
Here is a route demonstration in 30 minutes:
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Note: The waiting time at the cemetery/crypt may look like a desync. Sorry about that. A polished TAS would use that time for more creative entertainment.
These are the two main tricks involved:
1. Used a lot of healing potions (glass vials) to walk through lava instead of using the flower of lava protection. This saves maybe an hour and
feels a lot better:
2. The final boss can only be killed with a magic wand. Coincidentally,
the final boss himself has a magic wand and it can be stolen from him by using a time stop spell (gold ring). Spells aren't supposed to work at the final boss, but it is possible to backtrack out from the spell-restricted area and return there immediately, while the spell is still in effect.
These items were manipulated from enemies:
- 3 red keys (for secret doors in the tombs of Hemsath)
- 1 grey key (for the crypt)
- 17 glass vials (15 should be enough in a real run)
- 1 gold ring (for the final boss)
Some explanations:
- I bought some apples from a shop to avoid starving, but the optimal amount is unclear at this point. My guess is that 2 apples are enough, but they should be collected from somewhere instead of bought, because shopping and screen transitions stop the in-game clock...
- Crystal shard is required to get through a force field. An undead NPC (who lives in a crypt) gives the shard in exchange for a bone fetched from the tombs of Hemsath. The guy appears in the crypt at 22440 in-game time. The game begins at clock 8000. The game progresses 1 time unit in 4 frames. So, it takes about 16 real-time minutes for the NPC to appear at the crypt. An optimal run would use this 16 minutes to collect all the items listed above and then use the possible time that is left to entertain the viewer as well as possible. Even in this sloppy test run I had thousands of frames to waste while waiting for the guy to appear.
Here are Lua scripts to help planning and testing stuff:
-- Change these values to get items (max. 255):
arrow = 0
bluestone = 0
greenjewel = 0
glassvial = 15
crystalorb = 0
birdtotem = 0
goldring = 1
jadeskull = 0
yellowkey = 0
greenkey = 0
bluekey = 0
redkey = 3
greykey = 1
whitekey = 0
-- Your numbers are then applied to the item slots:
memory.writebyte(0xffefcc, arrow)
memory.writebyte(0xffefcd, bluestone)
memory.writebyte(0xffefce, greenjewel)
memory.writebyte(0xffefcf, glassvial)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd0, crystalorb)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd1, birdtotem)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd2, goldring)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd3, jadeskull)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd4, yellowkey)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd5, greenkey)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd6, bluekey)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd7, redkey)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd8, greykey)
memory.writebyte(0xffefd9, whitekey)
Use this script to travel fast and through walls:
gens.registerafter( function ()
x = memory.readwordsigned(0xffa57c)
y = memory.readwordsigned(0xffa57e)
buttons = joypad.get(1)
if buttons.right then x = x + 8 end
if buttons.left then x = x - 8 end
if buttons.up then y = y - 8 end
if buttons.down then y = y + 8 end
memory.writeword(0xffa57c, x)
memory.writeword(0xffa57e, y)
end)
Use these to teleport to an important location:
-- Auto-travel to the tombs of Hemsath:
memory.writeword(0xffa57c, 13500)
memory.writeword(0xffa57e, 19326)
-- Auto-travel to the crypt:
memory.writeword(0xffa57c, 19870)
memory.writeword(0xffa57e, 17330)
-- Auto-travel to the Citadel of Doom:
memory.writeword(0xffa57c, 11245)
memory.writeword(0xffa57e, 29134)
-- Auto-travel to the final boss (you must be inside a building/cave for this to work):
memory.writeword(0xffa57c, 10170)
memory.writeword(0xffa57e, 34000)
This might help too, when saved as a WCH file:
0
22
00000 00FFA58F b u 0 Player HP
00001 00FFF1BF b u 0 Bravery
00002 00FFF1C1 b u 0 Luck
00003 00FFF1C3 b u 0 Kindness
00004 00FFF1C5 b u 0 Gold
00005 00FFEFCC b u 0 Arrows
00006 00FFEFCD b u 0 Blue stones
00007 00FFEFCE b u 0 Green gems
00008 00FFEFCF b u 0 Glass vials
00009 00FFEFD0 b u 0 Crystal orbs
0000A 00FFEFD1 b u 0 Bird totems
0000B 00FFEFD2 b u 0 Gold rings
0000C 00FFEFD3 b u 0 Jade skulls
0000D 00FFEFD4 b u 0 Yellow keys
0000E 00FFEFD5 b u 0 Green keys
0000F 00FFEFD6 b u 0 Blue keys
00010 00FFEFD7 b u 0 Red keys
00011 00FFEFD8 b u 0 Grey keys
00012 00FFEFD9 b u 0 White keys
00013 00FFF1D2 w u 0 Clock
00014 00FFA57C w u 0 X-position
00015 00FFA57E w u 0 Y-position
Who wants to optimize it? I can help. :)
P.S. I think this game has the longest straight corridor ever and it is walked through twice.
A rather surprising plot twist.
Edit: Oh, Taz must be on ground when the level ends. Otherwise he can't jump on the first frame of the next level.